Main South Eviction Risk: High , Worcester

Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Worcester County average of 5.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.2 points. 79% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $52,068, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Food insecurity runs 33.2% against 17.8% nationally. Cost burden runs 54% here against 44.4% across Worcester County.

The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 2.7/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7/10.

Court records carry 48 eviction filings across 1 observed years. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 7/10. The worst year on record was 2015, when 5.1% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 5.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.